Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 2 | This technique has been applied to the study of platelet function in diabetic subjects ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Recently , another ultrafast MRI technique has been introduced under the name of ‘ snapshot ’ or turboFLASH . |
| 4 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 5 | This cumbersome formulation has been dropped in the Vienna Sales Convention , which substitutes as the sole criterion of internationality the fact that the parties carry on business in different States , a formulation adopted in the U N Convention of Agency in the Sale of Goods and the Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing . |
| 6 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 7 | Part of the area has been designated as a site of special scientific interest under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and special protection has been sought under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance . |
| 8 | No special protection has been given to the broadcasting of the proceedings of the House , although it seems likely the defence of qualified privilege to actions of defamation will be available . |
| 9 | Over the past two hundred years a degree of protection has been accorded to the tenant against the distraining landlord . |
| 10 | Now , one floor of the building has been converted into a 40-place day centre and another into a ten-bed assessment and rehabilitation unit . |
| 11 | The only other major building has been identified at the south end of the site , not far from the bridge crossing the Tyne . |
| 12 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 13 | Andrew Simmons of ITN has been travelling with the convoy , and has sent us this special report . |
| 14 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 15 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 16 | A £10,000 grant has been given towards the restoration of the Donkey Road alongside the town 's famous 199 Church Stairs , and £6,000 to protect archaeological remains on the plain alongside the Abbey . |
| 17 | A ‘ substantial ’ three-year grant has been given by the DoH to the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities . |
| 18 | Another change in local government finance is that the rate support grant has been replaced by the revenue support grant . |
| 19 | Where a block grant has been paid in the past , the Department will continue to do so unless or until an alternative arrangement is reached with the provider , and undertakes to pay for new individual placements from 1st April 1993 at not less than the DSS rate . |
| 20 | Restructuring grant has been paid by the Government since 1987 . |
| 21 | A grant has been requested towards the cost of installing a safety surface and a number of residents have volunteered to form a family fund-raising group to help with providing equipment . |
| 22 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | Alan Sillitoe 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been adapted for the stage and is going on tour throughout Scotland in May and June during the Mayfest and Perth festivals . |
| 24 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 25 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 26 | IBM Corp has been hit by the backwash of Amdahl Corp 's warning , and Moody 's Investors Service Inc has downgraded the long-term debt and related securities of IBM and its financially supported IBM Credit Corp , IBM International Finance NV and IBM Japan Ltd by two notched to single-A-1 from double-A-2 . |
| 27 | The concentration of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the site effluent has been cut to an average of two parts per million from 22 in December 1988 . |
| 28 | There is even a list of offices which claims that a dux was in charge of twelve civitates , but although this text has been seen as a Merovingian document , it is almost certainly a school-book , originating perhaps in the British Isles . |
| 29 | The text has been deleted to the Scrap |
| 30 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |